Jacques L Lacan

Lacan: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that the structure of unconscious is like a language”. Controversial throughout his lifetime both for ado...

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Vol. Book VII) (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers. Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical question...

Ecrits: A Selection

A major new translation of one of the most influential psychoanalytic works of modern times. Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work has had a tremendous influence on contemporary discourse. Lacan lies at the epicenter of contemporary discourses about otherness, subjectivity, sexual differenc...

Jacques Lacan (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This b...

The Triumph of Religion

"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was wonderfully able to speak to Catholics and to brin...

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Freud's Papers on Technique (Vol. Book I) (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Société Française de Psychanalyse. The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.

Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book X

Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it is not nostalgia for the object that causes...

On the Names-of-the-Father

What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said, "The Name-of-the-Father creates the function of t...

The Works of Jacques Lacan: An Introduction

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

Ecrits: A Selection

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

The Seminars of Jacques Lacan Bk. 1 : Freud's Writings on Technique, 1953-1954

The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955

Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

Alfred Hitchcock

… her beloved uncle Charlie Oakley (Joseph Cotten) of being a serial murderer. Critics have said that in its use of overlapping characters, dialogue, and closeups it has provided a generation of film theorists with psychoanalytic potential,[citation needed] including Jacques Lacan and Slavoj ...

JacquesAlain Miller

…In 1963, Althusser assigned Miller the task of reading "all of Lacan" and Miller carried out the task admiringly. The following year, Jacques Lacan was appointed lecturer at the cole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and transferred his Seminar to the ENS. Miller's encounter with Lacan was to be a ...

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie mile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud".

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie mile Lacan (French pronunciation: [ak lak]) (April 13, 1901 September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made ...